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On 9/30/05, ir. ing. Jan Dockx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Seems we need some input here from the people who wrote the spec. It is
> not clear in itself, w.r.t. what should be done with the time zone for
> parsing and formatting. The API talks about what to do with the locale,
> but keeps quiet about the time zone. We need to pick their minds.
>
> Hey! Spec people! We know you're there ;-) ... What gives?
>
>
>
> On 29 Sep 2005, at 23:59, Volker Weber wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > the javadoc says:
> > public java.util.TimeZone getTimeZone()
> >
> > Return the TimeZone used to interpret a time value. If not
> > explicitly set, the default time zone of GMT returned.
> >
> > so we can't change this.
> >
> > but i think (now) the patch we applied last week was the wrong
> > solution.
> >
> > Instead of changing getAsString() to use getTimeZone() for setting the
> > timeZone to the DateFormat, getAsObject() shouldn't do this.
> >
> > Of cause getAsString() and getAsObject() must use the same TimeZone,
> > which was not the case last week.
> >
> > The following is taken and light modified from date.jsp in simple
> > example:
> >
> > <h:inputText value="#{date3}">
> > <f:convertDateTime type="both"/>
> > </h:inputText>
> > <f:verbatim><br></f:verbatim>
> > <h:outputText value="#{example_messages['date_comp_text6']} #{date3}"/>
> >
> > The time differs in <h:inputText ../> and <h:outputText ../> cause of
> > the GMT default in the converter. And around midnight also the date may
> > differ.
> >
> > I'm shure this is not the expected behavior. But i'm not shure if this
> > is not a problem in the h:outputText, shoudn't there also used the
> > converter to convert the java.util.Date to string?
> >
> >
> > But to be in sync with output generated by jsp the converter shoudn't
> > use getTimeZone() but _timeZone.
> >
> >
> > We should undo the patch from last week and change getAsObject()
> > accordingly.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ir. ing. Jan Dockx wrote:
> >> I believe the default is the cause of all problems. I think the
> >> default
> >> needs to be the systems time zone. But not sure yet.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 29 Sep 2005, at 22:54, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
> >>
> >> This sounded vaguely familiar. I think it's been fixed.
> >>
> >> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-506?page=all
> >> DateTimeConverter.getTimeZone should return the default time of
> >> the
> >> GMT zone by default
> >>
> >>
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